1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

To Ice Water. 127 be frozen. Then pour out the freezing mixture (it is useless after one application), fill the tube with warm water, and the iced mass will come out; break up and bottle. This jug is sold at 315, Oxford Street, London. To Ice Water. —Fill water caraffes, or clean wine bottles, with clean spring water, nearly up to the shoulder. (If they are filled full they are liable to burst) Stop up the mouths, and let them stand at a fair distance apart, so that the ice mixture will have effect individually; in a pan or tub pound as much rough ice as required to fill up the tub, and to every 121bs. of ice add 31bs. of salt; put in this mixture, taking care it does not reach above one-third the height of the bottle, or else they will possibly break from too much frigid force ; throw a wet cloth over the vessel; in about two hours the water will be well frozen; if in too compact a mass, let the bottles stand in cold water, with the mouths open. We have already adverted to the valuable qualities possessed by the refrigerators of the Wenham Lake Ice Company, but it is only fair to the patentees of the sC Dry Cold Air Refrigerators " to point out the peculiar advantages which they claim as belonging to their invention. The refrigerators made by Messrs. Chavasse and Co., 505, Oxford Street, it is asserted, not only pre-